Soon after I learned about Anycast, I employed it on my home network, so that I can have multiple instances of Pi-Hole, mostly so that I can take down my Raspberry Pi without hearing from the family about how the Internet is down.
Until last night, I was using BGP (as part of FRR) for Anycast, running FRR on my Raspberry Pi and some other devices, and peering those with each other and with my router.
Well, I got tired of the full mesh that BGP requires, so last night I switched to OSPF. It still supports Anycast, but does not require a full mesh of routers, making it much more suitable to my needs. I mean, of course I knew BGP was not the right long-term answer, but it was easy and all of my coworkers were able to help me with any configuration questions -- and I got to say that I ran BGP at home, which was fun.
I have been using ZeroTier as my VPN solution ever since a friend mentioned it. I want to have some redundancy in case ZeroTier goes down, so last night I configured WireGuard on my Ubiquiti USG, as well as one of my offsite systems. I prefer to run this on my router anyway, since I don't want my whole network to go down if my Raspberry Pi goes down. If my network goes down because my router is down, well, then I have bigger problems than not being able to access my remote systems.
So, I'll use WireGuard as the primary, and ZeroTier as the backup.
One of my main goals right now is that I want to retire my Rasperry Pi 3B unit in favor of a PoE-powered Pi 4B unit, freeing up a power oulet, reducing cables, and generally simplifying my setup.
I'm not done yet, but I'm making good progress on these goals.
I am a system engineer in the Raleigh, NC area. My main interests are Unix, VMware, and networking. More about me, and how I got started.